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Romance Albarqawi
Romance Albarqawi [Romance B. Albarqawi] praised Hamas terrorist war crimes against Israeli civilians, including beheading children, in October 2023 as a featured speaker at an anti-Israel rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
As of November 2023, Albarqawi’s since-deleted LinkedIn profile said she had been a “Family and Visitor Services Coordinator” at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia since April 2021. More details are below in the Biographical Information section.
Albarqawi also led chants at the rally, which happened one day after Hamas carried out coordinated terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings on October 7, 2023. The terror attacks left about 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
As of November 2023, Albarqawi’s LinkedIn said she had been a “Family and Visitor Services Coordinator” at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia since April 2021. She said her job was full-time and she listed her skills as: “Patient Advocacy • Patient Support • Customer Experience • Teamwork.”
As of the same date, Albarqawi’s LinkedIn said she had been a “Clinical Research Coordinator” at Rowan University (Rowan) in Glassboro, New Jersey, since September 2020. She also wrote that she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Rowan in 2023.
In November 2022, Albarqawi became a member of the Social Acceptability & Functional Evaluation of Behavior (SAFE Behavior) Lab at Rowan. The SAFE Behavior Lab Facebook post announcing that she joined said that her “Future Plans” were “To attend a doctoral program to one day become a clinical child psychologist in the inpatient setting.”
As of December 2024, Albarqawi was listed on the West Chester University (WCU) website as a graduate student pursuing her master’s degree in psychology. WCU is located in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
